Resilient tire.



H. A."STONEHAM 6L C.- T.. SCHWARZE. RBSILIBNT TIRE.

, APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16. 1912.

1;O43,642.` l Patented N0v.*5,1912.

ATTORNEYS UNITED sTATEs PATENT CEEICE.

HORACE A. STONEHA-MvAND CARL T. SCHWARZE, OF SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

nEsILIENT TIRE.

Specicaton oi Letters Patent. Application filed January 1, 1912. Serial No. 671,403.

Patented Nov. 5, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HORACE A. STONE- HAM and CARL T. SCHWARZE, both citizens of the United States, and residents of South Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Resilient Tire, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates -to a new and improved form of resilient tire for automobiles and other vehicles, and particularly'relates to that type of resilient tires which are not intended to be inflated, and which are not only resilient but are also reliable and durable. v The objects 'of our invention aregeneri ally, the provision of a device of the abovementioned class, which is inexpensive to manufacture, and, specifically, the provision of a resilient t-ire adapted to supersede-pneumatic structures, and so constructed t-hatfalthough adapted to afford proper resiliency, it will yet give suliicient rigidity to the pe riphery of the wheel; otherand further objects being made manifest hereinafter as the Y description of the invention progresses.-

The 'invention consists inthe novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, delineated in the accompanying drawings, andl particularly pointed ,out in that portion of this instrument where-l in patentable novelty is claimed forcertain distinctive features of the'device, it being understood, that, within the scope of what hereinafter thus is'claimed, divers changes in the form, proportions, size and minor details of thevstruct'ure may be made, without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

We attain the 'above-outlined ,objects by mountingwit-hin a recess. within the periph-` ery of the wheel, a series of independent* l transversely Adisposed baise' plates, each of said base plates carrying an arched s ring, a

series of compressionjsprings being f isposed between each l'plate and its enacting .arched i -spring.' The several springs are united byperipherallyl disposed straps or tie bands and the resilientlportions ar'einclosed within a suitable outer resilient-tire; j

Reference is to be had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a, part of' this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding partsin both the figures, and in which- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a `preferred j embodiment of our invention, parts being broken away to show the internall mechanism, and Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line "2-2 of F ig. l.

' Described more in detail, we have shown a wheel of any suitable construction, having a hub portion A, spokes B and a felly C, said felly having a peripherally-disposed recess D 'of 'relatively great internal width, so as to form a pair of oppositely-disposed overhanging flanges E Disposed within the recess and fitting within the flanges E, and extending transversely'of the wheel, are a plurality of base plates 3, each of said base plates being independent of the other plates, and in the illustration shown to be of two parts with a central. overlapping. rabbeted joint 4,-so as to permit the plates to be inseitted beneath the flanges E.

l Fastened to opposite ends of each of the arched spring, is a series of independent. springs 7, said-series of springsI compression Vbeing positioned transversely of the wheel and diametrically relative thereto. As many of these springs may be provided as are foundnecessary; in this' instance six springs-being shown to each base plate and arched spring. All of the arched-springs are resiliently fastened together by means of peripherally disposed resilient bands 8, in the illustration shown to be two in number and disposed on opposite sides of the center of the periphery of the wheel.

In order to prevent creeping of the resiliprovided,

screws 1'1.

' `aving thus described our invention, we claim as new ters Patent:

In combination with a wheel rim lia-ving;

and desire to secure by liet-l' ent members about the felly of the wheel, a j

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of the. wheel, and has its opposite edges i'ei movably atlixed to the telly by means of.

' vrim to prevent interni inwardly extending side fienges1r :L cured at their outer ends to the arched tire comprising at series o' sepsratgresiiient spring, the outermost of said compression units each consisting o s transversely springs being seated iip'on and secured to the arched spring having inwerdiy turned l inturned base ends of the arched spring, and spacedends st the base, e base piste eomthe others of said transverse compression posed of two members each ot which is carsprings being seated upon and secured to ried by one of the inturned base ends ofthe the members of the mentioned base plete. arched spring, and secured thereto near its n testimony outer end., the' projecting portions of said nonies to this specification in member engaging under the flanges of the i two subscribing Witnesses.

the presence of rim, the inner ends of the said member of HRACE A. STONEHAM. the basepiat-e beingl rebbeted, means for se- CARL T. SCHWARZE. curing certa-in of the base ypistes tothe Wheel VVitnessesf the creeping of the tire, e

MYRON UPHAM,

transverse series of compression springs sei JOSEPH M. ALEXANDER.

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